R/data.R
covus_ethnicity.RdThe COVID Racial Data Tracker advocates for, collects, publishes, and analyzes racial data on the pandemic across the United States. It’s a collaboration between the COVID Tracking Project and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.
covus_ethnicityA tibble with 15,960 rows and 7 columns
datedate Data reported as of this date
statecharacter State
groupcharacter Ethnic group
casesinteger Total cases, count
deathsinteger Total deaths, count
hospinteger Total hospitalizations, count
https://covidtracking.com/race
Table: Data summary
| Name | covus_ethnicity |
| Number of rows | 15960 |
| Number of columns | 7 |
| _______________________ | |
| Column type frequency: | |
| Date | 1 |
| character | 2 |
| numeric | 4 |
| ________________________ | |
| Group variables | None |
Variable type: Date
| skim_variable | n_missing | complete_rate | min | max | median | n_unique |
| date | 0 | 1 | 2020-04-12 | 2021-03-07 | 2020-09-23 | 95 |
Variable type: character
| skim_variable | n_missing | complete_rate | min | max | empty | n_unique | whitespace |
| state | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 56 | 0 |
| group | 0 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Variable type: numeric
| skim_variable | n_missing | complete_rate | mean | sd | p0 | p25 | p50 | p75 | p100 | hist |
| cases | 3080 | 0.81 | 73357.18 | 166184.31 | 0 | 5529 | 21920.5 | 70265.5 | 2619476 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
| deaths | 3144 | 0.80 | 1645.64 | 3463.93 | -1 | 63 | 291.5 | 1401.0 | 32664 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
| hosp | 11662 | 0.27 | 5079.37 | 8831.52 | 0 | 556 | 1556.0 | 4959.5 | 56406 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
| tests | 14271 | 0.11 | 892566.44 | 2376098.22 | 0 | 58933 | 224156.0 | 537668.0 | 21633943 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
The group variable is coded as "Hispanic", "Non-Hispanic", or "Unknown". Hispanics may be of any race. State-level counts should
be handled with care, given the widely varying population distribution of people of different ethnic backgrounds by state.